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Overview

Along the Chilean border, in the rain shadow of the highest Andes, Cuyo is Chile's wine country and the city of Mendoza, with its sycamore-shaded streets, quality restaurants, and improving nightlife, is the heart of it. Literally hundreds of wineries, many of them open for tours and tasting — lie within an hour of its central plaza. Very few of them charge for the privilege.

When visitors have sampled enough Malbec and need to work off the weight from gourmet meals, the "Roof of the Americas" is only a couple hours away. Mount Aconcagua, the Western Hemisphere's highest summit, is part of a provincial park with long hiking ...

Along the Chilean border, in the rain shadow of the highest Andes, Cuyo is Chile's wine country and the city of Mendoza, with its sycamore-shaded streets, quality restaurants, and improving nightlife, is the heart of it. Literally hundreds of wineries, many of them open for tours and tasting — lie within an hour of its central plaza. Very few of them charge for the privilege.

When visitors have sampled enough Malbec and need to work off the weight from gourmet meals, the "Roof of the Americas" is only a couple hours away. Mount Aconcagua, the Western Hemisphere's highest summit, is part of a provincial park with long hiking trails, though only the fittest attempt the summit. Non-hikers can raft the Mendoza River, which is wild enough in the spring runoff even if the waves are bigger than the rapids.

Other natural attractions include the redrock canyons of Sierra de las Quijadas National Park, in San Luis province, and San Juan province's Ischigualasto Provincial Park, the "Valley of the Moon" for its lunar landscapes and home to major dinosaur discoveries. San Juan, which has its own lesser but worthwhile wine route, is also home to one of Argentina's most offbeat sights, the shrine to the folk saint Difunta Correa.